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The Domain Controller Dilemma

Meeting security audit requirements is a key focus for every organization. Seeking to comply with legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FISMA, PCI, or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act can be challenging for many reasons. IT operations must operate at optimum levels while, simultaneously meeting requirements, and providing overall protection of the enterprise from internal and external threats.

These stringent requirements require to collect, review, report, and archive security logs for 5 to 7 years. Protection of company information, critical files, and tracking privileged user activity can increase security and meet requirements simultaneously. Microsoft servers are the cornerstone of every company infrastructure so, managing the Windows security logs play a huge role in enterprise security and achieving compliance goals.

Windows domain controllers provide the most secure and accurate security logs for accurate user activity reporting, but they pose a significant quandary for many IT security-administrators because millions of logs get generated on each domain controller every day. Other log sources do not have this overwhelming and complex problem.

Protecting Critical Customer Information

Critical file servers and database servers contain private customer information such as credit card, social security, or health records, which need to be protected from unscrupulous outsiders and insider opportunists attempting to seize the opportunity to capitalize. Any small company has several domain controllers, critical servers, and database servers which generate literally tens of millions of Windows security logs and database logs that must be collected, analyzed, and reported for security and compliance necessities. Medium to large size companies face an even larger challenge in this area.

If company’s must collect, analyze and archive Windows security logs, and database logs for long periods of time (5-7 years), how can they do it without costing the company a fortune in additional maintenance and hardware costs?

Secondly, How can the complex Windows security logs and database logs be collected, analyzed and accurate reports created from several locations for potential risks to the enterprise, in a timely manner without significantly impacting the current performance of IT administrators?

The Log Retention Problem

LogClarity’s patent-pending LogClarity® Design Framework (LCDF) technology can dramatically increase log retention limitations without excess hardware, improve security and IT performance, while automating many manual tasks involved with passing stringent audits.

LogClarity® can help your organization comply with SOX, FISMA, PCI, HIPAA, GLBA and many other security audit requirements without running into these seemingly ominous barriers with log retention and security-administrative team performance.

 

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